The Independent 28 January 2007
Sex and travel, it appears, are top of the agenda. An online survey
published last October asked 1,500 people over 65 whether they had
regrets. The results were surprising. Rather than dreaming back to a
lost golden era, it found that many older people envy the lifestyles of
the young. Seventy per cent wished they had had more sex, 57 per cent
would have liked to have travelled more, and 45 per cent wished they
had quit their jobs and changed profession.
Known, unflatteringly, to the travel industry as the "denture
venturers" or the "Saga louts", there are an estimated 200,000
pre-retirement "gappers" in the UK. They spend around £5,000 per trip,
totalling an impressive £1bn per year.
